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The ox suffers, the cart complains.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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He did not study God he was dazzled by him.
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